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Webster
1913
Edition
Exility
Ex-il′ity
,
Noun.
[L.
exilitas
: cf. F.
exilité
. See
Exile
,
Adj.
]
Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
[R.]
Paley.
Webster
1828
Edition
Exility
EXIL'ITY
,
Noun.
[L. exilitas.] Slenderness; fineness; thinness.
Definition
2024
exility
exility
English
Noun
exility
(
uncountable
)
Thinness
,
smallness
; a shrunken or meagre condition.
1658
: But from the
exility
of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of
minor
age, or women. — Sir Thomas Browne,
Urne-Burial
(Penguin 2005, p. 15)
Etymology
From Latin
exilitatem
, from
exilis
‘exile’.
Pronunciation
IPA
(key)
:
/ɛkˈsɪlɪti/
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